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Can pain be mapped? Can obfuscations of an old decaying world embedded in the dank soil of a depleting forest, emanating from the rustling of luscious...

Reema Ray, the kickass detective with a baking problem, is back with a bang! Last seen in The Masala Murder and the short story There Will Be Cake,...

What is the first thing one needs when s/he decides to pen down a book? A topic. But just any topic won’t do. The topic has to be new or it must dare...

In the middle of the ongoing political pandemonium, as India elects its 16th Lok Sabha members amidst brouhaha and balderdash, very few books have...

The reviewers (the ones I have read!) of Sanjaya Baru’s offering The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh have made,...

The common and uncontested perception is that the foreign correspondents stay in merry state with privileged dining, wining and roving spree into...

Singapore being the epicentre of international espionage seems like an unlikely plot device for an espionage thriller. And yet Khalid Talib’s debut...

When Delhi’s former chief minister Arvind  Kejriwal sat on a dharna near Rail Bhawan against the inaction of Delhi Police during the mid-night raid...

The famous German strategist, Carl Von Clausewitz had written in his seminal book ‘On War’ that, ‘War is merely the continuation of politics by other...

What has been often apologetically dismissed as Ambedkar’s utopia – his ‘impracticable, unfeasible dream’ of caste-less society – his ‘anti-Hindu’...

Right at the outset of Playing the Nation Game, Benjamin Zachariah – historian, musician, playwright and occasional poet – tells us why we do not need...

Love. In theory and practice. Let’s call Ira Trivedi’s India in Love that because the book, written about ‘Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century’...